True Blood Promo Poster Offers Some Advice; Two Casting Updates

Continuing this week’s theme of werewolves, the latest promo poster for the upcoming third season of HBO’s “True Blood” has hit online, and it offers viewers a bit of advice to “Bewere”!

The poster debuted on People.com and seems to be a reference to werewolf Alcide Herveaux, a potential Season Three love interest for Anna Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse. In the books by Charlaine Harris on which the show is based, Alcide helps Sookie search for her beloved vampire beau Bill Compton (played by Stephen Moyer), who went missing at the end of Season Two.

Michael Steger of “90210” will play Tony, a gay prostitute who gets picked up by King of Mississippi Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) because of his resemblance to his current steady, Talbot (Theo Alexander). Steger will appear in one episode and may return on a recurring basis in Season Four.

British actress Lara Pulver has landed the recurring role of Sookie’s fairy godmother, Claudine.